Research Interests

Experimental High Energy

We came to LSU in 1979 as the junior member of the new experimental group in high
energy physics. Our initial efforts at LSU centered on b-quark physics at CESR and
on early neutrino oscillation experiments (E645) at Los Alamos. For a long period,
we maintained the dual focus on collider physics and neutrino physics working on the
AMY experiment at the TRISTAN electron-positron collider in Japan and the ZEUS experiment
at the HERA electron-proton collider in Germany while also participating in the LSND
neutrino experiment at Los Alamos. Currently, we are focusing solely on neutrino physics
participating in the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab.

Our interest in neutrino physics extends beyond the study of neutrino oscillations
and includes measurements of neutrino cross sections that are of vital importance
to particle theory, nuclear astrophysics, and future neutrino experiments. LSU has
played an active role in this physics on both LSND and MiniBooNE. The key interest
in the MiniBooNE experiment, however, remains a definitive study of LSND's evidence
for neutrino oscillation. For future neutrino work, we are considering both extensions
of the BooNE effort at Fermilab, as well as a reactor experiment in Europe.